Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.